Books with title A Room with a Zoo

This Audio Book is a live performance by Nita Moyer and is provided on a single Compact Disk in "MP3" format; 7 hours 11 minutes of unabridged audio of the original text. The book can be played on all MP3 players, Most newer CD/DVD players, Mobile audio devices, PDAs, Pocket PCs and PC CD/DVD-ROMs. A British middle-class romance, one of E.M.Forster's early and a recently celebrated work, is set in Florence, Italy -the birth place of the Renaissance. Forster explores relationships with a cast of eccentric characters gathered in an Italian pension and in England. Lucy Honeychurch must make a decision; She is forced to choose between her love for a working man, and the safe but conventional marriage to an idle rich middle-class gentleman. Forster brings us into a world of culture and 19th century snobbery. Forster takes us to Florence, Italy and Tuscany; a place of magic and scenery unmatched by any postcard. We are lead to a culture of another era set in a timeless beauty found only under a Tuscan sun; A contrast to Lucy’s life back home at Windy Corners in England. Around every corner Forster paints a picture that is vivid and enchanting; A hillside in Tuscany where famous painters visit, a square that fills the evening air with excitement and a pilgrimage to scenic cityscapes. A Room With A View begins in a pension with a view of the Arno. Charlotte Bartlett, Lucy’s companion, travels to Florence, Italy, acting as Lucy's chaperone; a part of Charlotte’s costs for the trip are borne by Lucy’s mother. Poor Charlotte soon is much fascinated with the other characters at their lodgings and is distracted from her duties as chaperone. Lucy finds a new freedom and takes us through many settings of old and quaint urban sight seeing and adventure. She meets George Emerson and his father Mr.Emerson. More characters and places fill this novel than can be imagined in 7 hours of reading. The novel ends in Italy; a happy ending that will warm your heart.

The incomparably beautiful city of Florence and the peaceful backwaters of rural England at the turn of the century serve as the remarkable settings for this lavish BBC dramatization of E.M. Forster's classic social satire, complete with a distinguished cast and stirring music.A Room With a ViewLucy Honeychurch is an innocent abroad -- a conventional middle-class English girl doing the Grand Tour of the European continent. But the "improving" effects of Europe's great art and architecture are soon overshadowed by a startling encounter with violent death and the distractions of an awakening passion.Forced to return to her life in England, beset with prim Victorian moral values, Lucy becomes engaged to the arrogant Cecil, but soon finds herself forn between Victorian society's expectations of her and the stirrings of her own quickening heart...

E. M. Forster's celebrated social comedy explores romantic intrigue and prim propriety among a colorful cast of Edwardian characters. Lucy Honeychurch, a young English woman traveling in Italy with her stuffy chaperone aunt, finds herself constrained by the claustrophobic influence of her British guardians and attracted to the free-spirited George Emerson, whose family's radical politics make him entirely unsuitable. Sharing a spontaneous moment of passion with him in the Italian countryside, Lucy is soon at war with the snobbery of her class and her own conflicting desires. Back in England, she is courted by a more acceptable, if stifling, suitor and soon realizes she must make a final choice between convention and passion.

Visiting Italy with her prim and proper cousin Charlotte as a chaperone, Lucy Honeychurch meets the unconventional, lower-class Mr. Emerson and his son, George. Upon her return to England she becomes engaged to the supercilious Cecil Vyse, but finds herself increasingly torn between the expectations of the world in which she moves and the passionate yearnings of her heart. As Forster writes, "You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you."

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E.M. Forster’s “A Room With A View”, published in 1908, is a classic coming of age tale about a young woman attempting to find herself in the strict culture of Edwardian England. Beginning in Florence, Italy where Lucy Honeychurch and her chaperone Charlotte Bartlett meet Mr. Emerson and his son George while on vacation. Lucy, engaged to the stuffy Cecil Vyse, is simultaneously repelled by and attracted to George, and struggles to reconcile her feelings. The subject of an award-winning 1985 film adaptation by Merchant Ivory, and one of Modern Library’s top 100 english-language novels of the 20th century.

A chance encounter… a murder in the Piazza Signoria … an impulsive kiss…and Lucy Honeychurch’s world is forever changed. Torn between settling for a life of acceptable convention or the calling of her true passion, Lucy epitomizes the struggle for individuality and the power and passion of love. A Room with a View is certainly E.M Forster’s most romantic novel, though it also questions the repressed sexuality and closed conventions of the Edwardian society. Set in Italy and England, Forster pivots the easy flowing passion of the Italian culture against the constrictions of late nineteenth century English society and has created a novel of great depth, charm and enchantment that has endured for over a century.

“The Signora had no business to do it,” said Miss Bartlett, “no business at all. She promised us south rooms with a view close together, instead of which here are north rooms, looking into a courtyard, and a long way apart. Oh, Lucy!” “And a Cockney, besides!” said Lucy, who had been further saddened by the Signora’s unexpected accent. “It might be London.” She looked at the two rows of English people who were sitting at the table; at the row of white bottles of water and red bottles of wine that ran between the English people; at the portraits of the late Queen and the late Poet Laureate that hung behind the English people, heavily framed; at the notice of the English church (Rev. Cuthbert Eager, M. A. Oxon.), that was the only other decoration of the wall. “Charlotte, don’t you feel, too, that we might be in London? I can hardly believe that all kinds of other things are just outside. I suppose it is one’s being so tired.” “This meat has surely been used for soup,” said Miss Bartlett, laying down her fork. “I want so to see the Arno. The rooms the Signora promised us in her letter would have looked over the Arno. The Signora had no business to do it at all. Oh, it is a shame!” “Any nook does for me,” Miss Bartlett continued; “but it does seem hard that you shouldn’t have a view.”